Digital Media Commons Student Crew
Student workers are the stable backbone of the DMC’s daily operations. They provide reliable patron assistance during the DMC’s scheduled open hours, including equipment check-in/out, poster printing, studio support, and consultation services. Ida Du and Oriana Tang worked on a video project in support of Fondren 101 explaining how to use OneSearch. Kelton Keck, Guillian Paguila, and Adara Toran assisted with teaching short courses on nearly the full spread of topics that the DMC supports, from 3D modeling and graphic design to photography and video editing.
Kelton Keck teaching the Fundamentals of Digital Photography workshop.
Adara Toran teaching the iMovie workshop.
UX Office Student Update
Alex Manchester graduated from Rice with a PhD in mathematics last spring. During their last year at Rice, they worked at Fondren as the Mathematics Collection Development Assistant and as a Fondren Fellow. They are now the Mathematics, Statistics, and Computational Sciences Librarian at Stanford University. At Fondren, they assisted with the selection and acquisition of new books, weeding of damaged and outdated books, contributed to online research guides on the history of math and the relationship between AI and accessibility, and helped run workshops introducing students to the mathematical typesetting software LaTeX and Overleaf. As a Fondren Fellow, they collected oral history interviews of mathematics in the Rice Mathematics Department in order to preserve historical information about mathematics at Rice and make it accessible to a broader audience. Alex decided to pursue librarianship after meeting a mathematics librarian at a conference, and reached out to Debra Kolah, the mathematics librarian at Rice and head of the UX office, to explore opportunities to get library experience. They are excited to now be working at Stanford, and have continued working on collection development and software workshops there. In particular, they are working to become a certified instructor with the Carpentries, which teaches foundational coding and data science skills that are not included as a part of basic research training in many disciplines.